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Hamish & Andy put three people in separate isolated storage units and asked them to hit a button when they felt like one hour had passed. I would do poorly. Even if I started counting, I'd become too distracted by the noise in my head.

I’ve always wanted one of these, and now I can get one pretty cheap! The KABB Modern Digital Flip Clock is $44, comes with black or white number flaps, and runs off a single D battery. It looks a bit cheap in the photos—I certainly don’t think it’ll pass for a vintage Bomba—but that hardly […]

Thirteen years ago, Pittsburgh’s Jerry Lynn carefully lowered an alarm clock on a string, lowering it into a wall from the floor above, part of a cunning plan to identify where to drill a hole by waiting for the alarm to go off. Unfortunately, the string snapped, and the clock’s been going off daily ever […]

MNTNT’s Albert Clock is a clock that presents the hours and minutes as simple math problems. Is it annoying or engaging? Or…. both! In standard mode, the queries change every minute. They are completely random, so even the query for the hours change, even if the result stays the same. You can speed up this […]

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